Dementia-Related Psychosis: Strategies to Address Barriers to Care Across Settings
This white paper by a Gerontological Society of America clinical workgroup summarizes the evidence related to dementia-related psychosis and provides strategies to address barriers to care across a variety of settings. Recommendations for how to improve early detection and diagnosis, facilitate care, improve approaches to treatment/guideline-based care and transitions of care, reducting setting-specific challenges, supporting clinicians, and advocacy and payer engagement are discussed.
Geriatrics: Communication about Feeding Tubes
In this video (17:18 mins), Dr. Paula Lester Associate Fellowship Program Director of Geriatric Medicine at Winthrop University Hospital, describes how end of life care issues such as feeding of patients with advanced dementia is a difficult and often emotionally fraught time for patients’ families and requires strong communication skills from their clinicians. This video demonstrates communication skills related to this topic including risk of skin breakdown and hospice eligibility.
Dealing with GRIEF
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA), in collaboration with the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation, the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, the Association of Professional Chaplains, and the Oncology Nursing Society have developed grief educational resources for frontline providers. "Dealing with Grief" is a series of five videos, each 2-5 minutes long which are meant to provide timely and practical information and resources to professional caregivers, patients and their significant others on grief education during these unprecedented times.
Partner Resources, National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
CDC’s Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Program and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) partnered to incorporate brain health messages into existing chronic disease messages. The four rack cards and infographic are downloadable and include risk reduction messages about how the promotion of these behaviors can reduce risk for memory loss and promote brain health. Rack cards and infographic can also be customized to include your organization’s logo. These resources are also available in Spanish.
Person-Centered Dementia Care in a Hospital Setting
This educational module designed by CATCH-ON is part of their Basics of Aging Program which provides education about aging and older adult healthcare for healthcare providers, other caregivers, families, and older adults themselves. This module provides an interactive image for participants to click through. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: (1) understand "person-centered" dementia care in the hospital setting; (2) describe how to communicate with people living with dementia in hospital settings; and (3) learn how to maximize function and safety in the hospital setting.
Working in Teams
This educational module designed by CATCH-ON is part of the Basics of Aging program which provides education about aging and older adult care for health care providers, other caregivers, families, and older adults themselves. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: (1) discuss the reasons an interprofessional team can provide better care for an older adult with multiple chronic conditions; (2) identify the roles and responsibilities of possible common team members; and (3) describe how the individual older adult needs determine who becomes a member of the team.
Managing Multiple Chronic Conditions
This educational module designed by CATCH-ON is part of the Basics of Aging program which provides education about aging and older adult care for health care providers, other caregivers, families, and older adults themselves. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: (1) define multiple chronic conditions (MCC); (2) understand that MCC makes treating one illness at a time more difficult; and (3) understand that the treatment goal should be the older adult's quality of life. This module includes a resource list and is also available in Spanish.
Normal Aging
This educational module designed by CATCH-ON is part of the Basics of Aging program which provides education about aging and older adult care for health care providers, other caregivers, families, and older adults themselves. By the end of this module, learners will understand the changes that older adults may experience while aging including changes in: muscle mass, vision, hearing, taste and smell, cognition, sleep patterns, and metabolism. This module is also available in Spanish.
Evaluating Memory Concerns
This educational module designed by CATCH-ON is part of the Basics of Aging program which provides education about aging and older adult care for health care providers, other caregivers, families, and older adults themselves. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: (1) identify common memory changes that occur before families receive a dementia diagnosis; (2) understand the process of getting a dementia diagnosis from a health care team; and (3) identify resources for addressing a family member's ongoing care-related needs. This module is also available in Spanish.